Arabic
character does not appear or chunk characters or ??? characters in XML PDF
report on Oracle EBS 12.2.6
Solution
cd $OA_JRE_TOP/lib
create or edit xdo.cfg file and add following entries
<config version="1.0.0" xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/config/">
<!-- Properties -->
<properties>
<!-- System level properties -->
<property name="system-temp-dir">/tmp</property>
<!-- PDF compression -->
<property name="pdf-compression">true</property>
<!-- PDF security ->
<property name="pdf-security">false</property>
<property name="pdf-open-password">user</property>
<property name="pdf-permissions-password">owner</property>
<property name="pdf-no-printing">true</property>
<property name="pdf-no-changing-the-document">true</property>
</properties>
<fonts>
<font family="Times New Roman" style="normal" weight="bold">
<truetype path="/erp_apps/oracle/app/fs1/EBSapps/comn/util/jdk/jre/lib/fonts/timesbd.ttf"/>
</font>
<font family="Times New Roman" style="normal" weight="normal">
<truetype path="/erp_apps/oracle/app/fs1/EBSapps/comn/util/jdk/jre/lib/fonts/times.ttf"/>
</font>
<font family="Times New Roman" style="italic" weight="normal">
<truetype path="/erp_apps/oracle/app/fs1/EBSapps/comn/util/jdk/jre/lib/fonts/timesi.ttf"/>
</font>
</fonts>
</config>
ftp times.ttf,timesbd.ttf,timesi.ttf fonts into above following directory from local windows machine.